Who wants to leave home, where they were born and raised? But if the war knocks at your door, sometimes there's no other way, by Syrian artist Nizar Al Badr, Margriet Ruurs describes a migration journey through little Rama's words.
Books and Movies
Hotel Rwanda is a drama film about the Rwanda Genocide. The film portrays the violence and massacres that broke out between Hutu and Tutsi ethnic groups in 1994 and ended with the death of a large number of Tutsi (approximately 800 thousand).
"Zühre Ninem" describes the Rumelians whose lives were destroyed in a turbulent period that began with the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-1878, which was called "The Great Defeat", and ended with the Independence War.
The Immigrant, directed by and starring Charlie Chaplin, is a 1917 American silent comedy film. It tells the story of the journey of a poor immigrant, played by Charlie Chaplin, alone on a ship from Europe to New York...
Halide Edib, who personally experienced the destructive effect of wars in shaping the soul and body, closely experienced the two sides of people, both material and spiritual, in the war environment.
Never leave me is about the story of three friends who dream of leaving the orphanage where they are staying and starting a new life. As a young child, Isa's life is far from the comforts of playing with toys and learning to read...
Based on true stories, W.G. Sebald depicts a different European history than we know, from the beginning of the century to the present, with human relations in its focus.
In the documentary film named “For Sama”, Waad Al-Kateab, one of the witnesses of the Syrian Civil War, presents an uncensored documentary that she created from real shots by recording with her own camera what happened under siege.
Hosseini's book named Sea Prayer, inspired by the story of Aylan Kurdi, a three-year-old Syrian refugee who drowned in the Mediterranean Sea in September 2015 while trying to reach a safety place in Europe and whose dead body washed ashore...